Abstract. Semantic sensor networks use declarative descriptions of sen-sors promote reuse and integration, and to help solve the difficulties of installing, querying and maintaining complex, heterogeneous sensor net-works. This paper reviews the state of the art for the semantic specifi-cation

common to evolve programs (or expressions or formulae) in a more constrained and often domain-specific language." (Poli et al. 18 as quoted by Orlov and Sipper 15 ). Our approach assumes that we have access to C source code, a negative test case that exercises the fault to be repaired

. In music, such expectations depend on many aspects of musical structure, including harmony, but here we focused on pitch expectations for single note continuations to melodic contexts. Specifically, we predicted that a listener estimates the probability of different anticipated pitched continuations to a

by Thurston (cf. Combining our results above, we obtain the following corollary on the existence of geometric structures for the elements of M(3, D). Corollary 0.10. All elements but finitely many homeomorphism classes in M(3, D) admit geometric structures. In the proofs of our results, we essentially use a

First and foremost, I would like to thank my advisor, Prof. Jennifer E. Michaels. I am most appreciative of your guidance over the last four years, from the basics of elastic waves to both short- and long-term career advice. I have grown a tremendous amount, both profes-sionally and personally, and am deeply grateful for your mentorship, patience, and support. I would also like to thank my Ph.D. committee for their valuable insight and sugges-

B) with drastically different amounts of resources. Microbenchmarks demonstrate the efficiency of Servilla's implementation, while an application case study on structural health monitoring demonstrates the efficacy of its coordination model for integrating heterogeneous devices.... Read complete abstract on page

of global animal and public health that must be provided in the veterinary curriculum, directing attention to many specific components. Global public health, and the variety of associated and essential topics that have been well documented in the sequence of papers in this compendium, is critically

Service-based systems that are dynamically composed at runtime to provide complex, adaptive functionality are currently one of the main development paradigms in software engineering. However, the Quality of Service (QoS) delivered by these systems remains an important concern, and needs to be managed in an equally adaptive and predictable way. To address this need, we introduce a novel, tool-supported framework for the development of adaptive servicebased systems called QoSMOS (QoS Management and Optimization of Service-based systems). QoSMOS can be used to develop service-based systems that achieve their QoS requirements through dynamically adapting to changes in the system state, environment, and workload. QoSMOS service-based systems translate high-level QoS requirements specified by their administrators into probabilistic temporal logic formulae, which are then formally and automatically analyzed to identify and enforce optimal system configurations. The QoSMOS self-adaptation mechanism can handle reliability and performance-related QoS requirements, and can be integrated into newly developed solutions or legacy systems. The effectiveness and scalability of the approach are validated using simulations and a set of experiments based on an implementation of an adaptive service-based system for remote medical assistance.

The key research objective of the data analysis and interpretation stage is to evaluate the included articles for heterogeneity and select appropriate methods for combining homogeneous studies (22). The published literature on the delivery, organization, and financing of health care often comprises

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